One of the easiest feel good jobs, replace the knarly looking headlight assemblies and front turn signal lenses on a 90 244. Car looks 10 years younger! Polishing the chrome on the grill, is however, mandatory!

jorrell

Next time you have a couple of hours to kill, pull your door panels and lube the various parts of the window mechanisms. I did this recently on both my wagon, with power windows, and 242, with manual crank, and the results are well worth the minimal effort.
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'80 DL 2 door, '89 DL Wagon

I recently cleaned several electrical contact points: fuse holders, taillight bulb holders, engine block ground points, battery cable connections, and replaced the Alternator Ground Wire!

No more flickering dashboard lights!

[[ southern fried volvo '91 240 184k mi ]]

On Sunday I was replacing a brake line from the ABS box to the driver's front wheel well, and I removed the air box to get at the brake line. While I had the air box out, I replaced the ball of tin foil that I'd used to block off the hot air intake with a permanent rubber stopper. I held the rubber in place with a hose clamp and some copper wire. It's now air tight. And it looks very professional as well, not that anyone will see it down at the bottom of the engine bay.
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1992 245 w/M47 transmission, 225k miles

I know the feeling. My most recent "feel good job' was tracking down a matching blue center arm rest,to match the 245 interior. It was available 'pick-up only', in San Francisco, of course I live in Dallas.
I had a business trip in the bay area and co-ordinated with the guy for a month on where/how to meet, and skipped out from a dinner meeting in my suit to 'covertly' meet in a parking lot in San Jose, a good 20 mi drive from where I needed to be. I then waited for 40 min paitently awaiting the armerst. I felt glee when it arrived, in near perfect condition, tucked it into my suitcase and headed home. I was late for the dinner meeting, but the armrest was more important, giving me that first feel good moment.
The second feel good moment was when I installed it the day after I returned last week. I just went for a long drive to enjoy my great find.
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'89 245 sportwagon, destroyed by hit & run driver, RIP. '04 V70 2.5 T Sportwagon, 12k mi and '91 245 5-speed, 209k mi, replaced the '89

you know what my big "feel good" job was this weekend? Readjusting the washer nozzles and cleaning the sunroof tubes in the front pillars. I never knew there were also tubes there, I just thought it was the back that had tubes. After noticing a leak at the front of the roof and reading here, I took some compressed airs to the front tubes. Completely blocked! Took a old coathanger and cleaned it out, blew some more compressed air in and wowsers it was clean! Rained last night, and no leaks! Talk about a small job, but it feels good.

because you are not "on the clock" and can have little breaks, frequent clean-ups, stop to polish/clean things in there, and sort of enjoy looking at some of your brick's innards. BTDT. Just don't fall alseep lying under the car on your roll-around. It's embarassing!

Regards,

Bob

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